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Note: This post was created several years ago – we finished our renovation and moved in on July 4th of 2010!

Our last expansion in our current space was opened 2 years ago this May, and already we have outgrown it! Thanks to you, our food business has increased to the point that we’re having trouble keeping enough in stock to make it to the next week’s delivery. Combine this with the challenge we’ve always had with visibility on this street (we get calls from people who are driving back and forth on the street and can’t find us, and people to this day come in and say they live right down the street and never knew we were here). So, we stumbled across a unique opportunity just two blocks down the street, which is lucky, as there really aren’t any spaces larger than what we already have in our neighborhood. I was in Blackbird Wine talking to Andy, and I mentioned that I wished that his old space (his store used to be on the side of the building and he has recently moved up front) was next to the space that’s been vacant in that building for so long, as we’d love to put them together to make one big store. That’s when he said, “I think both of those spaces share a wall”. So, we looked into it, and lo and behold, our bigger store became a possibility. It will be a big L-shaped store, with the main entrance right on Fremont St. The side entrance will become our food delivery bay, where deliveries can be made right into our back room! (that may be more exciting to us and our truck drivers than it is for you, but it will be a big help for us to have it set up that way).Â Parking is definitely a lot better down there too.
So now we face another big build-out from scratch, starting in April and hopefully resulting in a move on July 4th weekend. It will come just in time for us to celebrate Green Dog’s 6 year anniversary. We’re going to try and make it look as much like our old space as possible, which means as the time draws nearer, we might be dismantling some of this store to use in the new one. Hopefully we can make a smooth transition without it looking too ransacked in here. The whole thing is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. Wish us luck!

The Work Has Begun!!

Before Shot inside the new space – that wall in back is coming out soon

Looking out towards the street in the new space

This is the wall in the back that will have an archway into the other space, where the food room will be

Go Alan Go! Our contractor breaks into the wall that will join the main store space with the food room